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Work and Events / Re: Northwest parking lot

« on: September 18, 2023, 03:39:46 PM »

Gravel being spread on the parking lot.

The loader with a 5 ton rock being used as a compactor.

Standing in the north west corner of the new lot looking towards the main lot.

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Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 11 - Official Work Thread

« on: September 13, 2023, 03:51:47 PM »

The cylinders were picked up from the machine shop today.

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Work and Events / Re: Engine House - Official Work Thread

« on: June 27, 2023, 05:19:20 PM »

Pictures from the last week or so.

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Work and Events / Re: Jayne's Way Crossing Renewal May 30 and 31, 2023

« on: June 01, 2023, 07:58:45 AM »

Some more pictures.

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Work and Events / Northwest parking lot

« on: April 15, 2023, 02:13:31 PM »

Last year when the town was repaving Cross Rd. the railroad got around 50 truck loads of fill from cleaning out and reshaping the road ditches. An area was cut and stumped to stock pile the fill last year. This winter more of the parking area was cut off by volunteers. Last week our local excavation contractor Jeff Verney came in and cleared the rest of the area and spread out the fill. We used the bulldozer that Chesterfield and Associates loaned us while our dozer is down for repairs to spread fill and push the stumps out to the back of the property. We also cleaned up and moved all the stumps and softwood logs left over from putting in the other parking lots. A gravel surface will be spread over the lot after everything dries and settles sometime later this year.

Supervision is never far away.

The supervisor traded in his green chair for an orange tractor better to keep an eye on us.

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Work and Events / Re: Sheepscot Passenger Platform Reconstruction - Official Work Thread

« on: April 08, 2023, 03:59:43 PM »

Rocks being placed along the mainline embankment underneath the location of the new platform. The big rocks will hold rip rap on the slope to prevent the ballast from sliding down the slope.

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Work and Events / Re: Engine House - Official Work Thread

« on: April 08, 2023, 03:49:59 PM »

Floor at the north end of the pit. The outside floor sections hinge up and the center sections are removable. The south end of the pit will receive the same setup.

Siding work is getting close to being done.

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Work and Events / Re: Coach 9 - Official Work Thread

« on: April 05, 2023, 03:30:48 PM »

Pics from today after the second coat of varnish.

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Work and Events / Archives Room - Official Work Thread

« on: March 29, 2023, 08:05:55 AM »

A new dedicated archive room is being built in the basement of the Percival house. The new room will be insulated, have a double layer of sheet rock for fire resistance, and seperate climate control.

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Work and Events / Re: J&S Truck Build/Rebuild - Official Work Thread

« on: March 29, 2023, 07:54:49 AM »

Brake rigging installed finished on the first truck.

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Work and Events / Re: Engine House - Official Work Thread

« on: March 29, 2023, 07:53:20 AM »

Engine house progress.

No. 9 on the pit

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Museum Discussion / Bay 4 closed in shop

« on: March 28, 2023, 11:57:37 AM »

Bay 4 is closed for the painting and varnishing of coach 9. The door lock has been changed and the door into bay 3 locked from the bay 4 side. Wood working tools are out of service until the coach team is done with painting.

For emergency access to bay 4 see Eric Schade, Brendan Barry, or Jason Lamontagne.

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Volunteers / Re: March 2023 work reports

« on: March 11, 2023, 07:56:37 AM »

Truck rebuild progress

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Work and Events / Re: Coach 9 - Official Work Thread

« on: March 11, 2023, 07:48:29 AM »

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Work and Events / Re: Sheepscot Passenger Platform Reconstruction - Official Work Thread

« on: March 07, 2023, 10:27:21 PM »

The old Sheepscot shelter was shipped to Top of the Mountain this afternoon.

Using the big forklift to lower the shelter down further on the flatcar. The shelter was left 8 inches higher on the car the day we craned the shelter onto the car to pull the lifting beams out from underneath.